Bottom-up and top-down development

Nexus Between Asset-Based Community Development and Unconditional Cash Transfers

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ID3886745
AuthorsGeeta Reddy (Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (United States), corresponding author), Guillaume Barbalat (0000-0002-8212-8053, Twitter (United States))
Year2022
Volume32
Issue1
Pages82-91
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2021.1937544
OpenAlexW3211617223
LanguageEN
References cited16

This review explores the potential for a conjunction between Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) to intensify development outcomes. ABCD is a community-driven, bottom-up development model that focuses on empowering the poor. UCT is a centralised, top-down, income distribution programme critical in alleviating poverty. Following an overview of the principles, main outcomes, and critiques of these two different development approaches, we present how ABCD and UCT could support one another to improve development. We base our theory upon the fact that both methods can work in a synergistic manner and palliate each other's weaknesses

Business · Cash transfers · Community development · Computer security · Economic growth · Economics · Poverty · Public economics · Top-down and bottom-up design · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

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